On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > If you have an Xrite Passport kit, you could always take it out of > your bag and snap a quick shot of the color checker in the light for > calibration purposes later. They're very compact.
Aren't those about $60 or so? Probably a good thing to have. The problem in this one wasn't finding something to set the color balance, it's that in lightroom the tint was maxed out at +150. And, yes, in an ideal world, there are probably all sorts of other ways to bring things into balance. I'm not saying that this is the best way to solve the problem, I just thought it was an easy, and clever, solution to the problem, that other people might find helpful. Here's the situation. There's a shot that you want, or are asked to, take. You don't have any time to prepare, fiddle with camera settings, change the lighting etc. You take the picture, and it would be great photo except that in the off balance lighting the people don't look attractive to anyone that doesn't have a fetish people with the skin tones of moldy zombies. The color balance is out of the range for Lightroom to correct just using the basic sliders, but the dynamic range of the K-5 is enough that you could bring it back under control. How do *you* do it? I'd love to see other hints and tricks. I've tried messing with the color sliders and haven't had much luck, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. I think the per channel tone curves of LR4 would help. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
